• Press Freedom

    Journalist Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

    Published On: 04/17/2025

  • Press Freedom

    ‘I have always acted within the law’

    Meduza

    Meduza

    Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

    Joel Simon

    Columbia Journalism Review

    To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Kleptocracy, Inc.

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.

    Published On: 04/14/2025

  • Democracy

    The rise of end times fascism

    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

    The Guardian

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

    Published On: 04/13/2025

  • Global • Safety

    Have things reached the point where it’s time to leave the U.S.?

    David Kirp

    San Francisco Chronicle

    No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

    Published On: 04/12/2025

  • Democracy • Safety

    Disposable People: We Are Not Safe

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Democracy

    Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

    DASHA BURNS and MYAH WARD

    Politico

    Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Technology

    The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

    LUKE O’BRIEN

    Mother Jones

    Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Legal

    Trump signs orders targeting two ex-officials who criticized him

    Steve Holland

    Reuters

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Entry: Denied

    SARAH GREVY GOTFREDSEN

    Columbia Journalism Review

    The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Democracy

    You Are Inside the Collapse

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Economy

    Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

    Timothy W. Ryback

    The Atlantic

    By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

    Be a Patriot

    George Packer

    The Atlantic

    Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

    DAVID BAUDER

    Associated Press

    A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

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